actually the "silly" or "childish" messages was one of the things that brought me to VL. To me, it showed a team that wasn't all "tight assed" and obviously have a sense of humor, this equals "friendly" no matter how you calculate it.

Back when that installer was written, Linux was about having fun. Even Linus used "FUN" as part of his personal slogan. I think far too many people these days take too much too serious, and nitpicking on wordings used in an installer definitely shows.Too many want their system to look and act like a MS system, which really is a shame.

@Masta: The problem, as far as I am concerned, is if I'm to try and sell Vector Linux to my consulting customers they expect something serious for their business. They don't want "fun". VL is now trying to sell commercial support and small businesses are clearly part of the target audience. Business people have no sense of humor when it comes to the bottom line and Linux is still a tough sell to small business even though you and I know that it will save them money and make their systems more secure.

Yeah, I hate to say it, but I can have fun with Linux without it being part of the installer messages. I have no love for Microsoft products but I do have to convince people that Linux is better. I'd like to be able to do that with VL now that the issues I've seen as shortcomings are being dealt with so well.

I'm totally guessing here, but my suspicion is that Daniel Mr. Béranger has a very cynical sense of humor - at least this is how I've taken his statements. Obviously, his requirments for the perfect OS are not met, nor will they ever be met, by any OS; I think it's more of a subtle statement about the state-of-affairs and "direction" that's lacking in and around linux. Then again, maybe I've totally missed the mark